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Is dark matter a element

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If you mean, is it a kind of element that is not presently on the Periodic Table, the answer is unambiguously 'No.' It's not even a compound -- in fact, it can't consist of any material with charge.

Dark matter interacts with baryonic matter (ie, that small 4% of our Universe that we understand) through gravity, but not in any other way. We know it's out there, but we just don't know what "it" is.

In that sense, dark matter is like x-radiation was, just after Roentgen found it. We know it's there, because we can see its effects -- but we just don't know the WHAT. In both cases, scientists used a name to emphasize its unknown nature.

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